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I respect your opinion but I have a different opinion, so I guess we can
discuss it "ad infinitum".

The fact that it's not always needed doesn't mean it's an advantage to hide
it.

On the contrary, my opinion is that most users won't need this information
in day-to-day work.

I don't think that's an issue for most users. It doesn't offset the
disadvantage of requiring extra clicks to see the hidden info.

Screen is less cluttered.

> I think it makes sense in order to avoid displaying less-often used stuff
like the table
statistics.

Why? What's the advantage?

Indexes no longer hidden. About hiding from the bottom, I think it makes
sense in order to avoid displaying less-often used stuff like the table
statistics.

$cfg['InitialSlidersState'] = 'open'; applies to all sliders, but whilst
the options on top of a table should be hidden indeed, the indizes
shouldnt. Why hide indizes at all? Everybody who develops a database needs
them quite regulary, all other probably never see the structures page
anyway.

> Would you prefer that the "Details" slider only hide the space usage /
row
stats sections?

No, I'd prefer nothing to be hidden. If the window isn't large enough,
there's a scrollbar to 'unhide' the bottom of the page already... ;)

BTW, I'm missing the engine type on the structure page.

> P.S. these remarks would have been more helpful when 3.0 was in
alpha/beta stage... but thanks anyway.

I did install those, but I guess I didn't use them enough.

For now you can use $cfg['InitialSlidersState'] = 'open';

Would you prefer that the "Details" slider only hide the space usage / row
stats sections?

P.S. these remarks would have been more helpful when 3.0 was in alpha/beta
stage... but thanks anyway.